World of Warcraft Patch 2.2.0 will add VoIP in-game voice chat

13 August 2007

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Posted by:Ferry

Blizzard announced their MMORPG will get in-game voice chat at Blizzcon. All you World of Warcraft fans can soon download patch 2.2.0 that includes the VoIP function. Ejeet reports that the that the public test realm voice quality doesn’t sound that great and when the VoIP function is enabled it (obviously) takes up more resources on your computer, so they swear by the less taxing on your system resources Ventrilo.

The VoIP patch notes from Blizzard:
# Voice Chat – The new Voice Chat feature is now available in game. Players will need to go into the options menu under Sound & Voice to activate it. Volume sliders are available for the microphone, speakers, and game-audio fade (which automatically lowers the game audio when a voice communication is received), as is a “push-to-talk” setting. Right-clicking on a player’s name now includes the option to mute or unmute that player. Muting another player blocks all voice chat from him or her; the ignore feature now blocks both voice chat and text chat from that player.
# Chat Channels- New Chat Channel controls and functionality are now available under the chat tab in the Social Window of the interface. The interface will now show the channels players are in or are available, depending on the area of the world they are in, along with new private channel controls.

There will also be new raid content. You’ll soon be able to find the latest WoW patch notes here.